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Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The_Movie_Cat Objectively the current IMDb overall rating of 3.3 is probably accurate... but there's such love put into the frames of this quirky picture that it's subjectively worth so much more.I was first introduced to the film in an episode of 1988's "The Incredibly Strange Film Show", where the director explained that the entire genre of the picture changes halfway through as "I got bored with the movie".Beginning as a low budget, badly-dubbed thriller with catchy surf music, it gets around the halfway point and changes into an amateurish but enthusiastic superhero tale. Just as the pace starts to flag around the hour mark, a man in a gorilla suit comes on, and the whole thing's wrapped up in less than 70 minutes. Ray Dennis Steckler estimated that the budget was around $4000- $5000, and it shows. With tinted colour effects that change throughout the duration, it's a love letter to film, from the age of silent cinema to the then-present day. Steckler wasn't a man who let technical shortcomings restrict his ambition, and there is some talent that can be glimpsed between the restrictions.It all ends with a rock out beach party, as well it should.

John Seal Ray Dennis Steckler usually gets lumped together with Ed Wood in the pantheon of legendary 'bad directors'. That's unfortunate and unfair, because at his best Steckler is a talented and unique stylist. His best film, The Thrill Killers, is a taut melodrama set in the remote canyons of Los Angeles County, but for pure, unadulterated cinema nuttiness, Rat Pfink A Boo Boo is the one to see. It's a film of two parts: the first half is a heady blend of elements lifted from New York-lensed roughies such as The Defilers, Godard's Breathless, and every rock n roll movie of the late 50s, whilst the second half is a slapstick comedy influenced in equal measure by Batman and Beach Party. The film looks great: Steckler knows how to frame and light a shot, though he's less adept with action sequences, and the hyper-reality of the Los Angeles locations are effectively contrasted with the sur-reality of the comic sequences. It's also a well-paced 67 minutes, and Steckler effectively keeps your interest by constantly stirring new and unexpected ingredients into the pot. The cast are terrific: Carolyn Brandt is gorgeous as lady in distress Cee Bee Beaumont (who keeps a copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X by her telephone!), Titus Moede does the best Royal Dano imitation you'll ever see as Titus/Boo Boo, and real-life rocker Ron Haydock makes for a convincing Lonnie Lord/Rat Pfink, who, we are told, has sold an astounding ten million records to his adoring fans. It's no one's idea of Great Cinema, but Rat Pfink A Boo Boo is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of outsider art.

mikelcat Let me start by saying I like Steckler ,but the best films he was involved in were those made by Arch Hall Sr. His best role in my opinion was that of Steak in the ''Wild Guitar '' . Most of his directorial efforts were nonsensical fun and thats cool , he got to put his girlfriend / wife and his friends in his films and have some fun too ! He was also good in the film were he plays the escaped killer and seems to have had a knack for playing the heavy . As far as ''Rat Pfink a Boo-Boo'' , well what can you say ? It was clearly meant to read ''Rat Pfink AND Boo-Boo '' although I'm told Steckler denies this now , the line is used in the film to introduce them !!! Its harmless fun , but strictly grade z .

PaulyC Although this super hero spoof is kind of a mess it does have some amusing moments. It starts off as a serious film then changes gears very suddenly. I don't know if this method of film-making worked for me but a lot of people seem to find this movie a pretty good one. As with a lot of Steckler movies, it is well photographed and looks like a bigger budget movie then what it is. The characters Rat Phink and Boo Boo kind of come out of nowhere but they do have some funny moments. One thing I thought was funny was that even though they are chasing kidnappers in their motorcycle to save a girls life, they stop at every stop sign and look both ways because they are the "good guys". An uneven film with some funny moments.